Improvement in skates



UNrrEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW MABON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.4

IMPROVEMENT IN SKATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,440, dated October 2, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

`Be it known that I, ANDREW MABON, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Skates; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clearand eX- act description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. My invention consists of certain devices, fully described hereinafter, for quickly and firmly securing' a skate to a boot or shoe, and permitting the skateto be as readily removed.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now proceed to describeits construction and operation.

On reference to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification, Figure lis a side View of a shoe and skate, showing my improved device for securing the latter to the shoe; Fig. 2, an inverted 4plan view of Fig. 1, partly in section; Fig. 3, aside view of the skate detached from the shoe; Fig. 4, a section on the line l 2, Fig. l; and Fig. 5, a scction on the line 3 4, Fig. 1.

A is a skate, which, in the present instance, consists of a runner, B, and a plate, c, which is secured to the upper edge otl the said runner.

At the frontend o t' the skate is a projection, a, and to a recess, d, in the latter is adapted a pin, cl, at the toe of a boot or shoe, X, a lip, c, at each side of the pin cl preventing the projection a from escaping laterally from the pin.

At the heel of the skate is a projection, d', in which is a wedge-shaped recess, y, adapted for the receptionof a wedgeshaped pin, t', projecting from the heel ofthe boot, the pin being retained in its position in the recess by a plate,

, hinged to the side of the projection d.

WVhen the skate is to be detached from the shoe the plate f is turned back to the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, and the skate is moved laterally in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 2, so as to remove the projection d from -contact with the pin i. The skateis then moved forward until the projection c is free from con tact with the pin d.

The devices above described may be used in connection with skates of almost any of the usual forms. They are simple and cheap, serve to retain the skate :firmly in its place, and permit it to be readily detached when desired.

Other devices than that described may be used for securing the front end of the skate to the toe of the boot. For instance, a pin on the projection c may t a socket in the toe ot' the boot, or a projection, d', with a hinged plate, f, and a recess adapted for the reception of a pin on the toe of the boot, may he placed at the front end of the skate.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Y Askate havin ga projection, d, hin ged plaiej', and recess y, adapted for the reception of a pin on the boot to which the skate is to be attached, the whole being constructed substantially as described.

In testimony Whereofl have signed myname to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OHAs. E. Fosrnn, J oHN WHITE. 

